From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Mark Sanchez.

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Okay, Mark, think like a python. Be a python. Eat like a python. Hey, Mark, what's you doing?

Is that a fully loaded mega burrito from Benicio's burritos? Yeah, with extra guac and double beans.

I'm practicing to beat Sandin in our annual biggest burrito belly competition. This year, I'm taking my inspiration from some of the largest snakes in the world, pythons and anacondas.

Did you know they swallow their prey whole? I'm going to do that with this burrito.

You know, I was actually wondering about how big snakes eat because we got this question from a listener.

My name is Evelyn. I'm from Madison, Wisconsin.

And my question is, what do zookeepers feed bigger snakes such as pythons?

Sometimes they're going to be fed rats, just bigger rats than other snakes.

And occasionally, they're also going to feed them rabbits or even chickens.

I'm Emily Taylor.

I'm a professor of biological sciences at Cal Poly, which is a university in San Luis Obispo, California.

Seeing pythons eat, it amazing. Pythons have huge mouths, meaning that they can basically stretch their mouths

really wide open so that they can eat something that weighs as much as they do without taking

bites of it and without using their hands to help them.

It's like eating an enormous hot dog that weighs as much as you do. It's really impressive.

What they do is they grab the prey item and then they immediately wrap their coils around it

and they constrict it. And they're actually not suffocating it.

What they're doing is they're constricting blood flow so that eventually the prey animal

is going to slowly fall asleep and die because of lack of blood to its brain. And then the

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